Evidently, they are looking for yet another income stream, and figure the consumer is too stupid to realize that this is yet another tax. For some reason, the solution to every problem comes down to, pay a fee, pay a toll, find another way to liberate even more money from the worker’s pockets. It isn’t enough that fuel costs have risen dramatically, now we have idiot politicians wanting to raise the taxes on that fuel, and now this, turn freeways into toll roads so that even more money can be collected.
Yes, it's fantastic how that Left-O-Crat wants to add another 0.50$/gallon to "help reduce our fuel use"... I guess that help that other crippling problem of obesity since food prices will increase with it.
It's about control.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
The folks in Northern Virginia are also considering tolling every major public road. The irony is that quite a few major roads in the area started out as toll roads during Virginia's colonial period (for example, the Little River Turnpike and the Leesburg Pike).
All tolls would be electronic, with a sensor over the road to register vehicles with a device like an E-ZPass. Thompson believes the federal government will eventually require such devices in all vehicles.
That's disturbing.
But, they will require such devices under the guise of "saving the earth from climate change" and then use them to track everyone's every movement or even remotely commandeer and disable vehicles. Believe me, it can and will be done.